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Hey, it's Mike and Ian.
So this is another one of our archived episodes because as we said a couple weeks ago, all of our older episodes have been wiped from the Internet, gone forever.
We don't know what we did, but we did something to deserve this.
We really like this episode because it has a really important bit of information, a tip that could save your life if you're dying of hiccups.
True story.
One time, Peter Sagal.
We both also produced wait, wait.
Don't tell me.
Peter Sagal had the hiccups on stage during a live taping in front of hundreds of people.
He couldn't get rid of them.
I used the tip you are about to hear to relieve him of his hiccups and save the show.
I saved this show.
Ian did this while the show was happening through Peter's headphones while he was on stage.
It was almost a miracle.
Almost.
Also, we should say you'll hear from Seth in this episode.
Seth was our intern at the time.